Spoof news stories from Monday 19 May 2014

Social media is a constant battlefield for some couples. David and Amy Douglas felt bitter last year after receiving only 96 Facebook 'likes' for their wedding announcement, whilst most of their friends received 'likes' in the hundreds.
"Do peopl...

Two Chinese parents living in London have been sentenced to 10 years in prison after a series of accusations from their only child on 5 accounts of child abuse.
Zang and Liu Ping were accused of mental imprisonment, psychological terrorism and em...

Kirsty Edwards admits to being a "hopeless romantic". Her status updates regularly feature posts on how "tired she is of guys" and how "there's no decent men out there". Every so often her friends are subjected to a fortnightly breakdown as the guy s...

Nightclubs can be dreadful places for young women. The pathetic pick up lines, the dirty grinding, the ogling eyes of libidinous men. Tracey Crawford is one example of the many female victims that suffer from the crowd of horny young guys every Satur...

OXFORD, OH--Tragically, a student at Miami University, who had already lost three of his grandmothers earlier in the semester, lost his fourth grandmother when his dog, a pit-bull named Gator, ate her the night before his final exam.
The dog the...

Fibonacci, OH - A 3rd-grader from Fibonacci, Ohio has solved a mathematical concept that has perplexed mathematicians for centuries. Nine year old Samantha Integral was doing her homework when she overheard her mother talking on the telephone. She h...

Atlanta, GA, USA - Despite a decades-long effort, the Coca-Cola company has not yet built the world a home or taught the world to sing in perfect harmony. The company's efforts began in 1971 with a television commercial featuring a multi-cultural gro...

One of Hollywood's best kept secrets is how and where the Indiana Jones movie series got its start and more fascinating, how it got the name. But, with invitation in hand, the Stranger Than Truth team flew out to California to meet someone who was there every step of the way.
"It began when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas both got lucky as hell about the same time with their movies, Close En...

Britain's hospitals and clinics are at breaking point as a majority of the general public are showing symptoms of "Farageophobia".
With the relatively new condition spreading quicker than sexually transmitted diseases at Glastonbury, hospitals are...

Flushing, New York - New York Mets Manager Terry Collins was mad as hell at his team's subpar performance in recent weeks, much of which was caused by his own mistakes. So he called for a special closed-door meeting that excluded the media, the coach...

A man is suing his maker after he walked straight into oncoming traffic; blaming the poor senses and intelligence level his God has given him.
According to witnesses of the accident, Jamie, 32, was oblivious to his surroundings due to his headphon...

A Montana town has taken a novel approach to curbing street prostitution, with great success.
At a press conference yesterday, Lambton mayor Ramsey Mouton explained: "We used to be a quiet farming town. The biggest factory here was the woollen m...

Having heard from intelligence sources (at any rate, more intelligent than herself or her supporters) that Russian troops were massing in eastern Siberia, former vice-presidential running MILF Sierra Paylin called a press conference at the western ti...